User talk:Marlon Fire Thunder/Proposed solution by Ami Daniel
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[edit] Proposed Solution
My apologies for taking so long to respond--I was offline. I've conversed with a few others about the situation, and most tend to feel that not much can be done. Our goal on Wikipedia is to write an encyclopedia, not to provide a free adserver, and it's truly not the concern of Wikimedia or any of Wikipedia's contributors to preserve the PR of individual who abused it as such. In any case, I feel I may have found a reasonable compromise that is well within the limits of WP's policies and that may help to reduce the prevalency with which search engines direct others to this page, rather than your own website. However, to enact this I will need your cooperation and agreement.
First of all, I find it acceptable to remove the title of the article and your name from the warnings, though I will not endorse removing the warnings altogether. The messages from you here I will archive to a subpage and blank, so that I will have the messages available yet they will not appear when Google indexes the site. Secondly, you will have to change your username either to a dummy name (meaning that you have chosen to excercise your m:Right to vanish) or to something else, and the involved bureaucrat should then move your user and talk pages to that target. I'll monitor the page closely, but I would appreciate if you would drop a note here once your username has been changed. References on the Village Pump will eventually be archived, though they may still appear when the search engines index the site--absolutely nothing we can do there. The <Title Removed> article will also have to be preserved as a protected {{deleted page}} as it's simply been recreated too many times to allow it to be unprotected. After all of this has been done, there will still be references to your name on Wikipedia, but the bulk of them--and most especially the references that have concerned you (i.e. vandalism warnings)--will, within a matter of weeks, no longer appear when you search for your site.
Please understand that this is a lot of bending-over-backwards to boost the PR of someone who blatanly attempted to use Wikipedia as an adserver (in fact, most seem to have hinted that I should simply ignore your requests). If, after all of this has been completed, you continue to edit in the same manner, I strongly doubt that anyone will be concerned with what a search engine brought up when you searched for your name. As I said before, it's really not our concern, but I'm going to assume good faith here and try to help you as best as I can. If this seems reasonable to you, and you agree to the change of username, etc., then please indicate that either here or on my talk page, and I will go through and begin stripping talk pages of references to your name (within the confines of policy and only from talk pages of users who do not object to this). Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Okay. The titles have now been removed. Please goto Wikipedia:Changing username and request that your username be changed to something other than your real name. Once this has been completed, I will finish removing references to your actual name and your publication from this page. AmiDaniel (talk) 06:26, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I believe I now have all references to your name and your magazine removed from my talk pages. It will probably take a few weeks before they begin to disappear from searches, but after that I doubt that Wikipedia will be particularly high up the list. Thanks for your patience and compliance. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Ami,
Thanks for doing that. It's really appreciated.
Marlon Thunder Fire 21:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
